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  • 1.  wget no longer in Toolbox

    Posted Tue February 16, 2016 10:53 AM

    Originally posted by: DougBreaux


    Anybody know why wget is no longer available as part of the AIX Toolbox?

    If you go to the ftp.software.ibm.com FTP server, it's still there, but only in a very old 1.9.2 version.

    (I can use curl from the Toolbox instead, of course, just wondering why wget is gone.)

     


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  • 2.  Re: wget no longer in Toolbox

    Posted Wed February 24, 2016 03:30 AM

    Originally posted by: pacynka


    Try http://www.perzl.org/aix/

    AIX Toolbox is not updated any more, or is it?


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  • 3.  Re: wget no longer in Toolbox

    Posted Fri February 26, 2016 07:32 AM

    Originally posted by: sangameshm


    Hi Doug,

     

    Thanks for bringing this up to our notice.

    We definitely want to have wget on AIX Toolbox, i guess it might have been removed by mistake.

    Are you trying to use any new feature which isn't being supported by wget-1.9.2 ?

    You can still use curl to download files, but it will be useful if wget doesn't support a protocol of the server from where we are downloading a files.

    We will be updating wget with never versions sooner. 

     

     

     


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  • 4.  Re: wget no longer in Toolbox

    Posted Fri February 26, 2016 09:27 AM

    Originally posted by: DougBreaux


    Thanks, that's great news.

    I did get curl, and that does everything we need. But, yes, there are some capabilities in newer wget that 1.9.2 does not have. At least the one I hit was the --method option


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  • 5.  RE: Re: wget no longer in Toolbox

    Posted Wed January 08, 2025 10:05 AM

    Hello, are oldest rpm / packages deleted from time to time, or oldest packages always be kept for all time ?

    Thank you



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    David Egger
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  • 6.  RE: Re: wget no longer in Toolbox

    Posted Fri January 10, 2025 05:58 AM

    Hover your mouse over the link to the RPM.

    Copy the directory path - excluding the specific .rpm file and then point a new browser tab at the directory.

    For wget RPM link https://public.dhe.ibm.com/aix/freeSoftware/aixtoolbox/RPMS/ppc/wget/wget-1.25.0-1.aix7.1.ppc.rpm

    So browse to https://public.dhe.ibm.com/aix/freeSoftware/aixtoolbox/RPMS/ppc/wget/

    And you will see all the available wget version.  Currently

    wget-1.6-2.aix4.3.ppc.rpm             2001-04-16 13:06  257K  
    

    wget-1.7-1.aix4.3.ppc.rpm             2001-07-05 19:02  296K  
    

    wget-1.8.1-1.aix4.3.ppc.rpm           2002-01-28 19:03  338K  
    

    wget-1.9-1.aix5.1.ppc.rpm             2004-03-01 18:02  383K  
    

    wget-1.9-2.aix5.1.ppc.rpm             2004-06-09 15:05  383K  
    

    wget-1.9.1-1.aix5.1.ppc.rpm           2005-08-02 15:04  388K  
    

    wget-1.9.1-3.aix6.1.ppc.rpm           2014-11-07 06:01  455K  
    

    wget-1.17.1-1.aix6.1.ppc.rpm          2016-04-19 14:02  359K  
    

    wget-1.19.1-1.aix6.1.ppc.rpm          2018-01-18 01:03  621K  
    

    wget-1.19.2-1.aix6.1.ppc.rpm          2018-03-04 12:02  627K  
    

    wget-1.20.3-1.aix6.1.ppc.rpm          2019-06-12 14:02  660K  
    

    wget-1.21.1-1.aix6.1.ppc.rpm          2021-06-07 03:03  703K  
    

    wget-1.21.2-1.aix6.1.ppc.rpm          2022-01-04 07:03  705K  
    

    wget-1.21.4-1.aix7.1.ppc.rpm          2023-09-29 07:02  720K  
    

    wget-1.25.0-1.aix7.1.ppc.rpm          2024-11-29 05:02  741K

    The RPM filenames are links for downloading that version.

    Of course, don't ask for support for older versions - IMHO

    The requested wget 1.9.2 is from 2004!!! - Twenty years out of date so security must be suspect.

    Strictly, at you own risk and installing it might overwrite a perfectly good current version.

    Hope this helps,



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    Nigel Griffiths - IBM retired
    London, UK
    @mr_nmon
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